SC2 General Discussion & Simple Q/A - Page 208

On February 07 2018 10:00 Sundr wrote:What are the general reasons of people playing unranked instead of ranked?

During unranked game you can experiment without fearing of Demotion during next season or reduced MMR. For example you saw your mineral lines sacked of harvesters early on in the game and would like to practise that before playing in ladder so you can play unranked and experiment with super early air units and see if that pays off with harvester kills. Pretty much play the way you want to and in ladder just play to win.

On February 07 2018 10:00 Sundr wrote:What are the general reasons of people playing unranked instead of ranked?

During unranked game you can experiment without fearing of Demotion during next season or reduced MMR. For example you saw your mineral lines sacked of harvesters early on in the game and would like to practise that before playing in ladder so you can play unranked and experiment with super early air units and see if that pays off with harvester kills. Pretty much play the way you want to and in ladder just play to win.

I play Unranked when I want to play but know that I'm not feeling 100%. I tend to not play well in my first game of the day so I use unranked to warm up. I play unranked if I'm feeling tired or sick but still want to get some games in.

I also like to use unranked to do troll builds and just have fun, I don't nessarily want to drop out of masters on account of going 1 base bc rush but it's so trolly I enjoy doing it in unranked same goes for a lot of other gimmicky builds.

On February 09 2018 19:50 KelsierSC wrote:I haven't followed the Korean scene for a long time, Are Korean SC2 teams all gone? I see a lot of old names coming back so have a lot of players gone back to BW?

I don't know if this is the right place but is there a quick summary of what's happened to the scene in the past year?

Because of all the scandals (PRIME, SBENU, and Life in particular) Proleague had its final season in 2016 and all teams except Jin Air disbanded. And over time many players retired (some in total silence, sadly) to play other games or do their military service.

On February 09 2018 19:50 KelsierSC wrote:I haven't followed the Korean scene for a long time, Are Korean SC2 teams all gone? I see a lot of old names coming back so have a lot of players gone back to BW?

I don't know if this is the right place but is there a quick summary of what's happened to the scene in the past year?

Because of all the scandals (PRIME, SBENU, and Life in particular) Proleague had its final season in 2016 and all teams except Jin Air disbanded. And over time many players retired (some in total silence, sadly) to play other games or do their military service.

Yup, there's only around 45 active korean pros as of right now in SC2.

On February 09 2018 19:50 KelsierSC wrote:I haven't followed the Korean scene for a long time, Are Korean SC2 teams all gone? I see a lot of old names coming back so have a lot of players gone back to BW?

I don't know if this is the right place but is there a quick summary of what's happened to the scene in the past year?

Because of all the scandals (PRIME, SBENU, and Life in particular) Proleague had its final season in 2016 and all teams except Jin Air disbanded. And over time many players retired (some in total silence, sadly) to play other games or do their military service.

Yup, there's only around 45 active korean pros as of right now in SC2.

Who are these 45 that you speak of? I think that's a higher number than what it really is.

This is actually a good way to train, even without the vision part! :pHaving a pause of 10-20 second every now and then and thinking about the state of the game, and even more if you have someone to discuss with, is very helpful. It helps you correcting some mistake and adapting your playstyle when you're still hot headed, unlike replays.

How do players keep things fresh? Patch 4.0 hit awhile back and things got interesting again. Now all the build orders etc are figured out and things a kinda boring again. Does blizzard plan on doing routine shakeups like how riot does with league of legends or is the game always going to be the same? i can only reaper expand into the same boring 2 builds so many times....

How exactly are the leagues related to MMR? Are leagues some kind of indicator of how many people have that MMR range or are leagues just completely useless now and MMR is everything? I remember in the start of this season MMR got squished and now M1 on EU is like 4.9k-5.1k compared to where it was before at like 5.1-5.3k so there seems to be some connection but I'm wondering if there is some info about it!

On March 02 2018 22:55 ReachTheSky wrote:How do players keep things fresh? Patch 4.0 hit awhile back and things got interesting again. Now all the build orders etc are figured out and things a kinda boring again. Does blizzard plan on doing routine shakeups like how riot does with league of legends or is the game always going to be the same? i can only reaper expand into the same boring 2 builds so many times....

On March 02 2018 22:55 ReachTheSky wrote:How do players keep things fresh? Patch 4.0 hit awhile back and things got interesting again. Now all the build orders etc are figured out and things a kinda boring again. Does blizzard plan on doing routine shakeups like how riot does with league of legends or is the game always going to be the same? i can only reaper expand into the same boring 2 builds so many times....

the build orders are never "all figured out," you can play literally any style if you practice it enough and understand how to gain an advantage. at top pro levels there's usually a stable meta as players push the skill ceiling, but if you're an amateur player on ladder you have zero excuse to blame blizzard for your choice to do the same build every game

i hate to use him as an example, because he's kind of a dick, but RuFF proves this beyond a doubt. if you are good and you work hard then you can cheese and clown your way into GM. when koreans return to the game after being out of the meta they still completely thrash people up to GM+ because of their mechanics and instincts. and aside from all that, even if you can't be a master or GM player, who cares? play different styles just for the fun of it at a lower MMR. don't blame the game

On March 07 2018 19:47 Daimai wrote:How exactly are the leagues related to MMR? Are leagues some kind of indicator of how many people have that MMR range or are leagues just completely useless now and MMR is everything? I remember in the start of this season MMR got squished and now M1 on EU is like 4.9k-5.1k compared to where it was before at like 5.1-5.3k so there seems to be some connection but I'm wondering if there is some info about it!

The league boundaries use MMR from the end of the previous season. For example, if 96% of the active playerbase last season had MMRs below 5100, then the Diamond-Master boundary would be 5100 this season (since Master represents the top 4%). The boundaries don't change midseason unless something is really out of whack, but that tends to not happen anymore.

Am i the only one who thinks that mass spores ruin lategame PvZ??Its a joke that for protoss (as only skytoss would be powerful enough to take on lategame zerg tech.) there is no way to make a fair engagement as thereare a million spores and thex can be planted anywehere on creep.

On March 12 2018 06:07 Shathe wrote:Am i the only one who thinks that mass spores ruin lategame PvZ??Its a joke that for protoss (as only skytoss would be powerful enough to take on lategame zerg tech.) there is no way to make a fair engagement as thereare a million spores and thex can be planted anywehere on creep.

I think a lot people are annoyed with zerg right now. Zerg seem to have all the options and tools to deal with everything while also having the ability to play hyper aggressive or just sit back and turtle for 10 minutes.

My questions: Why is it that zerg + protoss get to have amazing late game armies but terran doesn't?